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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Diff Oil Top up general question

Hi All.
Just a quick query- is there an easy way of topping up diff oil...I only managed to get about 900 mls in my diff as the Comma Oils bottle would not compress any further as I was squeezing the oil in.
Cheers colin
colin frowen

You need one of these. It's like a giant syringe. About £10 off ebay.

Robert


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Do you get Nulon oils there----You can get their gear oils in a soft squeezy bag here--just screw the supplied hose onto the bag and squoosh it -you can refill them with whatever oil you use for next time.


William Revit

That Silverline giant syringe is fantastically useful for all sorts of things. I keep one to empty the water feature in the garden before the frosts arrive.

I've never seen Nulon oils over here Willy.
Mike Howlett

Another vote for Roberts Silverline giant syringe which I use for re filling the diff and gearbox on a 1500 also emptying brake fluid from the clutch & brake master cylinders but hopefully never again and numerous other tasks around the house, a nice cheap useful addition to the garage.

Tim
Tim Lynam

That looks very useful. I'll get one of those too.
anamnesis

You can also buy large clear plastic syringes (IIRC use a 500ml, but can even get 1 litre) from agricultural supply stores - e,g, McCaskie’s at Ayr Livestock Market - and then use a bit of clear tubing on the end. Either that or find an old Castrol EP90 squeezy bottle with built in tube.

I keep a ‘clean oil job’ version of such a syringe and tube for filling diffs and lever arm dampers with fresh oil in situ and a ‘dirty’ version for draining lever damper reservoirs of old oil and the combined master cylinder of old hydraulic fluid.

Cheers
Mike
M Wood

I have 2 or 3 old Castrol EP90 plastic bottles with tubes that I use for the diff and gearbox oils.
Bill Bretherton

The Silverline syringe in the image I posted also proved to be an effective vacuum brake bleeder. When I converted my Mk2 Sprite to discs I needed to bleed the new calipers but my Eezi-bleed was full of silicone fluid for our Frogeye and I didn't want to use it on the Mk2 because it used DOT4. So, I searched about the garage and garden shed for suitable silicone pipe to get a good seal on the brake nipple and on the pipe fitted to the Silverline.

It worked a treat. It took less than 10 mins to do both sides and I had a perfect brake pedal.
Rob



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This thread was discussed between 23/10/2023 and 26/10/2023

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